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The Last Empress

The Life and Times of Zita of Austria-Hungary, 1892–1989

by Gordon Brook-Shepherd · 1993 edition

The standard English-language biography of Empress Zita, drawing on her diaries — the dynasty’s downfall, the exile to Madeira and Charles’s death there in 1922, and her six decades of exile.

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Empress ZitaHabsburg dynastyMadeira exileEmperor Charles I
Author
Gordon Brook-Shepherd
Edition year
1993
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
ISBN-13
9780006472094

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